1945: A SUMMARY OF THE YEAR.

Jan 9:  Philippines -US land at Lingayen Gulf.
Jan 12: Russians drive to Oder,Germany.
Jan 16: US First and Third armies meet after Battle of Bulge.
Jan 17: Russians take Warsaw.
Jan 22: Ledo and Burma roads reopened.
Jan 23: St.Vith is recaptured.
Feb 3:  Battle of Manila begins.
Feb 8:  First Canadian Army atacks east of Nijmegen - Operation Veritable.
Feb 13: Dresden destroyed by firestorm bombing in controversial raid.
Feb 13: Germans capitulate in Budapest. 
Feb 16: Americans assault Corregidor.
Feb 19: US land on Iwo Jima.
Feb 23: US Ninth army attacks towards Rhine.
Feb 25: US daylight fireraid on Tokyo.
Feb 28: Philippines - US invade Palawan.
Mar 3:  Manila secured by US.
Mar 6:  Final German counter attack in Hungary.
Mar 7:  US sieze bridge over Rhine at Remagen.
Mar 8:  Battle fo Mandalay.
Mar 23: Montgomery crosses Rhine.
Apr 1:  US land on Okinawa.
Apr 2:  Allied forces encircle Germans in Ruhr pocket.
Apr 16: Final Soviet drive against Berlin commences.
Apr 17: Philippines - Battle of Eastern Mindanao.
Apr 18: Russians break through Oder-Neisse line.
Apr 18: Italy - 8th Army secures Argenta gap.
Apr 24: Berlin surrounded.
Apr 25: US and Soviet forces meet.
Apr 25: US 10th Mountain Army takes Verona in Italy.
Apr 26: Beginning of Battle for Berlin.
Apr 28: Mussolini is executed by Communists in Italy.
Apr 30: Hitler commits suicide in Berlin.
May 1:  Australians begin landings against Japanese in Borneo.
May 2:  End of fighting in Italy.
May 2:  Berlin surenders.
May 2:  Rangoon is taken from the Japanese.
May 4:  Surrender of German forces to Montgomery.
May 4:  Major Japanese kamikaze attack on US fleet at Okinawa.
May 7:  German unconditional surrender.
May 8:  VE day.
May 9:  The war in Europe is officially over.
Jun 22: US conquer Okinawa.
Aug 6:  `Little Boy` uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Aug 8:  Soviet declaration of war on Japan.
Aug 9:  Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
Aug 9:  `Fat Man` plutonima bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
Aug 13: Soviets invade Japanese held Korea.
Aug 15: Emperor Hirohito announces Japanese surrender in Tokyo.
Aug 15: last US raid on Tokyo by XXI Bomber command.
Sep 13: Surrender of Japanese in Burma.